My wife and I, as we always do, were looking for an easy, pleasant movie to watch after our usual Saturday steak and wine dinner. We found this one streaming on Prime and it fit the bill very nicely.
It is about a man and a woman in their 50s meeting and finding love, but played by the two in their 70s and 80s. Had this same story been about Ralph, the butcher, and Lucy, the retired schoolteacher, it likely would have been boring. What makes this one unique and more entertaining is that the couple are veterans of Hollywood TV and movies and they play themselves, telling their essentially true story.
The couple are Mariette Hartley and Jerry Sroka and they co-wrote the script. As the IMDb shows, she was divorced from her former husband in 1996, she and Jerry were married in 2005. So the time period for this movie would have been the late 1990s and early 2000s. Hartley was 80 or 81 during filming, Sroka 74 or 75. She is tall for a woman, he is short for a man. They make an interesting couple.
Again, much of the fun is seeing all the old actors we watched mostly during the 1970s and 1980s, and most of them just playing themselves.
